Installation Guides

LXQt 
     Tested and Working in
•	PCLinuxOS 2016.01

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Use the Xterm-su installer. This package must be installed for each user. This package contains a zip file, a Readme file, and an installer script (install.sh) used in the installation process. The installer script will extract the HDSentinel.zip file and do some basic housekeeping.

HDSentinel.zip contains the HDSentinel program, a Readme file, an icon file, a simple script to launch HDSentinel directly using the gnome-terminal emulator, and a custom launcher to be used with the script. The launch script is very, very basic. It is primarily for folks who are not familiar with scripting and/or are new to Linux. If you know your way around a script, you probably do not need these and can get this done on your own. If you know enough to have a terminal emulator preference, this will be baby steps to you. This is aimed at folks who don't spend a lot of time outside of the GUIs. That said, the package does make installing and using HDSentinel a lot easier.

The launch script automatically generates and saves a report. This feature is already built into HDSentinel with the -r switch. By default HDSentinel saves the report in the same folder as the HDSentinel program, (in this case ~/HDSentinel/) with the name "report.txt", which is overwritten each time "HDSentinel -r" is executed. This means old reports are not saved. The launch script enables the -r switch but alters the naming protocol and saves the report with a filename that includes the creation date and time, so that the reports are easily identified and old reports are saved rather than overwritten.  If the user does not wish to generate a full report, there is a nosave script. It can be launched manually, but it is not installed automatically. The scripts are located at ~/HDSentinel/xterm/ 

Permissions should be set automatically, but if the launchers do not work properly, you'll need to be sure the permissions are set on the HDSentinel program file to allow executing the file as a program, and also do the same thing for the launch script, and the launcher. 
PCLinuxOS
These scripts do not use sudo. They use su instead. But that means you need to know the root password, for these scripts to work. HDS needs root access so there is no way around using su or sudo. The folks behind this distro feel strongly about not using sudo, so I changed the scripts to use su instead. 
After downloading the installer you must set the file to be executable in the Properties>Permissions tab. You can now click (or double click) on the installer and select Execute in Terminal from the popup. You will get an HDS Icon on your desktop and in your Menu, under More Applications>Monitoring. If you also want to add the Icon to the Panel (taskbar) you need to drag and drop the Icon in the menu (not the one on the desktop) to the Panel and drop it where you want it.